If you want to know more look up the conservative political group called The Family. They're the ones behind financing the anti-homosexuality bill to get homosexuals hanged in Uganda. Really fucked up people.

I have to say though as an atheist I don't hate Christians. I don't hate anyone. I do dislike groups like The Family who use their religion to justify hatred and killing of sexual minorities. The fact that they identify as Christian doesn't matter to me in the slightest. If I think something is wrong or people are treated unjustly I'll say so. I think this particular brand of fundamentalist Christianity is disgraceful and if I was a Christian I'd probably be ashamed of their behavior.

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Stereotyping. It's great for some to do it, then they complain when others do it to them. Typical.

Yes, I am a Christian. I would NEVER behave in such a way. This movie is extreme and is spreading more ignorance. It only shows one way. This leads people to believe that ALL Christians behave the same way. THAT is why people "hate" christians. Many many people are very closed-minded and that is a big problem. This trailer struck me as very harsh and I had some resentful feelings. What stopped me from continuing further with those feelings is that I AM a Christian and I tend to be open-minded as much as possible. I know how to stop myself from allowing my feelings to fester and to reconsider those feelings. (Well, unless it's the wrong time of month, of course.) As a Christian, I know the depths of how others practice their beliefs and I understand why. My beliefs are MY beliefs and I don't TRY to push them on others. Do I believe in homosexuality for myself? No. I do have homosexual friends and family (1 person), though. I accept them for who they are. Christianity teaches that we are to love unconditionally and that we have no place to judge. There is only one judge. We are to "hate the sin, not the sinner". This is where people get confused in religion. That's where they believe they need to stop the person from sinning. No! We are to not practice the sin for OURSELVES, but continue to love those who do sin. We all sin in different ways. One sinner is not greater than another. None of us are above any other. What I personally don't like is when people get so ticked and judgmental with Christians while spreading falsehoods about them to get others to treat them the same, but they fail to realize that they are behaving the same as the one they acuse. This is the first that I am hearing of this movie and I have no clue who the director/writer is, but based on these scenes, I can pretty much conclude that they are against Christians and want others to feel the same. I don't respect people like that. I DO respect the person responsible for God's Not Dead. That person is not a Christian, but he is open-minded enough to be considerate and show other possibilities. Just because someone doesn't believe in something, doesn't mean they need to bash people that do w/ an attempt to spread hate. Do I agree with what these people are doing in this video? Absolutely not. They would be better to spread their time in efforts to help people with medicine, food, etc. LOVE!

So, I heard about the terrible lengths Uganda is going to to persecute people. Later, I found out the cause. The people who went there and spread hate, yes hate, should be ashamed of themselves and I don't know how anyone could live with the guilt.

What! Such an ignorant statement. First My parents were not that old. You understand that you were talking the late 30's for annexation. Hitler youth groups were illegal in Austria prior to annexation so there were very very few people involved and this would have been the late 1920's. Being teens in the 20's would put them in their mid 100's now. I can tell you did not learn your maths. And my parents are deadYou also know little of Hitler youth. It was an illegal group in Austria. In contrast the Hitler youth in Germany was mandatory and did not reflect a teens views. It is hard to believe the lack of education inherent in some people's lives.

I don't hate christians, I dislike hateful, idiotic bigots, who use God to justify their resentment. Some christians are good people, and some are bad people. Being a christian doesn't make you a good person, being a good person reflects through your actions and opinions. Just like being an atheist, doesn't necessarily make you intelligent or educated. Some atheists are horrible human beings, just like some religious people are.

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Not all atheists hate Christians. I don't. If they do they have had bad experiences and they are judging them based upon that. I mean it takes a lot of maturity to look past that stuff so I guess that is why. But seriously not all of us are like that.

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Not all atheists hate christians and not all christians hate atheists.

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I'd heard of this movie before and bits and pieces of people talking about it, but this is the first I've actually seen of the trailer.

Wow, what a horrible situation. I never liked missionaries, but fuck me, I had no idea they didn't just go no good - they actually do harm to the cultures they visit. Might actually watch this movie when it comes out.

This type of message doesn't help. The moment you use the word "hate" it becomes an attack on Christians and they stop listening. There is a difference between an atheist and an antitheist. An atheist just doesn't believe in God. An antithesist hates theism. It is possible to be both, or just one of them. This is not an atheist message, it is an antithesist message.

It says in the bible that you can judge a tree by it's fruit. (Luke 6:43) If that is true when the fruit of Christianity is hatred, murder, intolerance, bigotry, destruction, and expansionism. The tree is sick, and needs to be pruned. I'm not athirst, I am Pagan fro the record.

Seeing as so many of the fire fighters have been caught scamming the system for claiming be be sick from surviving 9/11 when they weren't sick at all, I don't really don't think people care anymore about if a fire fighter is offended by them.

I don't hate Christians in particular, I dislike all religions equally.

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Most" atheists" like you aren't really atheists. Just anti Christian. Ok so that's one place so you decide to hate everyone in the entire world. Real mature of you. And this is why people don't like atheir

Aren't really atheists? Sorry, is there some code to not believing in fairy tales? Do we have a book for that? Nahhh, we're definitely not all the same, but let's be honest, most non-believers living in the US are sick of right wing Christian extremists.

So you're allowed to he sick of them but they aren't allowed to be sick of you? It has nothing to do with "fairytales". People believe in lot's of things that we have absolutely no proof of like aliens and the big bang. You can't even prove that the world wasn't created yesterday and I could argue thatt he world is flat. Sounds silly? Try me. Yet people believe in all these things without proof. I'm not seeing the difference.

Yeah, I don't think non-religious people are to blame for any laws asking for the death of an individual based on the way they were born, so I can say I have a strong distaste for those who do. It's more likely that there are life on other planets in this vast universe than to say "Well, magical fairy sky man made all these ridiculous rules to abide by, even though we've never seen him". The Big Bang has more traction than that... we also can't disprove the existence of leperchauns, should we not be so "close minded" and take that into consideration as well?

To answer your first point. Racism? Lot's of people were killed for the way they we're born. Being more likely doesn't mean anything. You don't even know how big the universe is to say that. Read that in a book and you instantly believed it? Not seeing the difference again. There could be life on every single planet in our solar system and the government could know. All they have to do is tell us there isn't and we all believe. Believing what your leader tells you with no proof? How dare you? No difference again.

I agree with your message, but not your examples. I would say that the one titled "this is an atheists nightmare", is more inline with why atheists have a problem with Christians. The person asking the questions, didn't have even a basic understanding of science or how evolution works. In fact with the knowledge of positive and negative energy, it may actually be possible to get something from nothing as you can start with zero, and end up with -100 and +100, as Stephen Hawking has already shown.

In the last one he just wasn't good at debating. The stars are a bunch of explosions that create new elements, and even warm the nearby planets that can create life. So nature clearly can create explosions creating more order and complexity. The idea of a car evolving is so dumb that he shouldn't have entertained the idea. Cars don't have DNA that mutate nor can they reproduce. So they were just a bad example.

"actually be possible to get something from nothing as you can start with zero, and end up with -100 and +100, as Stephen Hawking has already shown."Actually he hasn't.First, Hawking cannot explain why the law of gravity exists in the first place. He says “because there is a law of gravity,” but he can give no reason why such a law is present, and is constant. Without an adequate explanation for the origin of laws, such as gravity, any explanation of the origin of a Universe dependent on those laws is incomplete. Furthermore, regardless of what theoretical, mathematical calculations Hawking has concocted, the simple fact of the matter is, if there ever was a time when nothing existed, there would be nothing now. The mere fact that Hawking suggests that anything can “spontaneously create itself out of nothing,” is, with all due respect, ridiculously absurd and completely unscientific! It is impossible to get something from nothing—any way you slice it.

Stephen Hawking wants us to believe that a nebulous set of theories, which cannot be confirmed through observational data, absolutely establishes that an infinite number of diverse universes exist, having been created from laws of physics that just happen to allow this. John Horgan, a fellow atheist, says that the popularity of M-theory is the result of "stubborn refusal of enthusiasts to abandon their faith.

Also. contrary to what Hawking seems to think, it is impossible for scientific instruments and the methods of science to analyze nothing.

–Imperial College of London astrophysicist C. J. Isham, who is Britain’s leading quantum cosmologist. “There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo—Divine will constituting nature from nothingness.”

Also, the atheist argument goes—the probability of such things occurring naturally is very low…but with enough time, and even a slight probability, what is there to prevent virtually anything from happening? But this atheist reasoning makes some very grave oversights. First of all, bare probability and large amounts of time, alone, cannot accomplish anything, ever. Period.

Does this seem like too strong a statement? It is not. Probability and time can never accomplish anything without 1) a causal mechanism and 2) an underlying structure, or order.